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Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964), known professionally as Jane Horrocks, is an English stage, screen and television actress, voice artist, musician and singer who voiced Fairy Mary in the Disney Fairies, and Eliza Fletcher in the Phineas and Ferb episode "My Fair Goalie."

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  • Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964), known professionally as Jane Horrocks, is an English stage, screen and television actress, voice artist, musician and singer who voiced Fairy Mary in the Disney Fairies, and Eliza Fletcher in the Phineas and Ferb episode "My Fair Goalie."
  • Barbara Jane Horrocks (born January 18, 1964) is an English voice, stage, screen and television actress, voice artist, musician, and singer. She is best known for her role as "Bubble" in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous as well as her distinctive voice. She is also a comedienne. In Phineas and Ferb, She voices Eliza Fletcher in the episode "My Fair Goalie."
  • Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is an English voice, stage, screen and television actress, voice artist, musician, and singer. She is best known for her role as "Bubble" in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous as well as her distinctive voice.
  • Jane Horrocks (b. 1964) is a British actress who played Bubble on Absolutely Fabulous (with Jennifer Saunders), co-starred on stage with Alan Cumming in the musical Cabaret, and starred in the stage and film versions of Little Voice. She played Anja in "The True Bride" from The StoryTeller, and appeared as Miss Irvine in The Witches.
  • Horrocks, the youngest of three children, was born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, the daughter of Barbara (née Ashworth), a hospital worker, and John Horrocks, a sales representative. She attended Balladen County Primary School and later trained at Oldham College and subsequently at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with Imogen Stubbs and Ralph Fiennes, and began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She drew critical notice for her performance in the film Life Is Sweet (1991), followed by her award-winning performance in the West End play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice in which she sang all the songs. Horrocks became a name with the role of Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012).
  • While working on Road, a play directed by Jim Cartwright, Horrocks warmed up by doing singing impressions of Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey and Ethel Merman. Cartwright was so impressed with her mimicry he wrote The Rise and Fall of Little Voice for her. She was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1992 West End production, directed by her boyfriend Sam Mendes. She reprised her role in the 1998 screen adaptation, Little Voice, which earned nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
  • Jane Horrocks is an English actress and singer, known for portraying Bubble from Absolutely Fabulous and the title role of "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" (1992 play and 1998 film adaptation). Her other movie and TV credentials include the film version of Roald Dahl's The Witches, Deadly Advice, Chicken Run, Corpse Bride, the Tinker Bell films, Arthur Christmas, Wyrd Sisters, the televised version of Watership Down, Fifi and the Flowertots, The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, and Trollied. She has also appeared in plays such as Caberet, Macbeth, Absurd Person Singular, The Good Soul of Szechuan, and Annie Get Your Gun.
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